Word: bugging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...picnickers who want to know just what they are getting in for, two University of Tennessee graduate students gave some statistical hints from their study of the local bug populations. Every sandwich dropped on their leafy hillside will fall on an average of 102 bugs; a picnic cloth will cover 14,745. Estimated population per acre: more than 40 million chiggers, ants, .spiders, beetles, leaf hoppers, pill bugs, flies, bees, wasps and moths...
Alberto Giacometti looks like a tormented Chico Marx; he also sculps and paints with the bug-eyed fury of a Harpo, and creates things undreamed of even in Groucho's philosophy. His subject matter is the human frame; his approach to it destructive. Giacometti hacks, picks and pocks his plaster sculptures until they stand thin as reeds, then he generally smashes them. He saved just enough to make an exhibition in a Paris gallery last week...
...animation, stop motion and live action. Now most sponsors demand all three at once. "They want every technique used in a Hollywood film packed into a one-minute commercial," complains Film-Maker Robert Lawrence of Jerry Fairbanks, Inc. "It makes it tough for us and sometimes leaves televiewers bug-eyed." But sponsors' enthusiasm for filmed commercials has resulted in an $8,000,000-a-year business for Manhattan alone. More than, 300 filmmakers, many of them operating on shoestrings, are scrambling for a share of the new jackpot...
...series of columns, he wrote that the local policy racket, long known as the "bug," was flourishing more than ever. Its headquarters, wrote Collins, had shifted from Atlanta to nearby Clayton County, where residents complained of "prostitution, bootlegging . . . brawling in the roadhouses and occasional slayings." Said Collins: the local cops are doing nothing about it. In high dudgeon, Clayton County's Sheriff W. L. Dickson wrote the editors challenging Collins to prove that there was anything wrong in the county. Said Collins: "That made...
...first get your characters into a mess, then grab a handful of electrons and get them out of it. In the opinion of Murray Leinster (real name: Will F. Jenkins), dean of U.S. science fictioneers, the formula has been badly overworked. He is tired of galactic worlds, space ships, bug-eyed monsters and the few thousand rabid fans who cry for them. Along with most book publishers, he would like to see "SF" go respectable, or at least sensible, keep one foot and preferably two on the ground-and even try for a slightly more polished prose...